Toy locomotive



r J. B. SEGOR. Toy-Locomotive.

No. 228,562. Patented hkne 8,1880.

N. PETERS. PROTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASMXNGTON. n. c.

UNITE STATES JEROME B. SEOOR, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

TOY LOCOMOTIVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,562, dated June 8, 1880.

Application filed November 21, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JEROME B. SEooR, of Bridgeport, Fairfield county, Connecticut, have invented Improvements in Toy Locomotives, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is a toy locomotive constructed, as described hereinafter, so as to avoid the objections to those in which the driving mechanism is secured to an independent frame.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side view, showing the frame of the toy locomotive; Fig. 2, a sectional elevation on the line 1 2, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, asectional elevation on the line 3 4, Fig. I.

In the manufacture of toy locomotives it has been usual to make the body and cylinders and other parts supported thereby of sheet metal, and to mount the driving mechanism in a separate frame secured in and to the body. This is expensive, as the various parts have to be formed separately and soldered and connected together, while the proper adjustment of the moving parts upon the body occupies considerable time.

As the frame of the driving mechanism is secured only at two or three points to the body, it is apt to get displaced by use, and very frequently the toy in a short time becomes useless from displacement of the operatin g parts.

In my improved toy I make the frame of the driving mechanism in one piece with the body, forming upon the latter the cylinders and bearings at one operation, so that all the points of operation occupy a fixed relation to each other, requiring no skill upon the part of the workman in fitting and preventing the displacement of the working mechanism in the body. The body may be cast in a single piece; but in order to reduce the expense resulting from coring I prefer to cast or stamp it in two sections, A A, meeting on a vertical plane extending longitudinally through the center.

The side pieces, a a, constituting the frame of the clock-work or other driving mechanism, are cast or stamped with and constitute apart of the body pieces, and are perforated to receive the journals and connecting-bar of the driving mechanism. Upon each section is formed one-half of the cab b, domes c c, pipe (1, and also the projections representing the valve-chest and cylinder 0 c, and having bearings for the rods 8 it, connected to the lever 20. (Dotted lines, Fig. 1.)

The end piece, B, is made separate from the body and with a flange, i, inclosing the end of the body, so as to hold the two sections in position, and the end piece is retained by a screw, 8, which passes into a bracket, I, extending upward through notches in the body and downward under the cylinders, where it affords a support for the pilot.

The two sections are further secured by a ring, f, which incloses the upper end of the divided pipe, constituting the flange thereof, and by a cap, g, which clamps the divided dome c, and is secured by a screw passing between lugs t t,within the dome, upward through the cap, and provided with a nut, h, at the upper end. Thus constructed, the body of the toy can be manufactured very cheaply, as each section can be cast without cores, and when the three parts are put together the whole is complete without further operations, there is no fittin g or adjusting of the driving mechanism, and the latter being supported directly by the body cannot be displaced relative to the other working parts by any treat ment other than that which will destroy the articles.

If desired, the head-piece B may be cast with the side pieces, A A, centrally divided, instead of being in one piece, as shown.

While I prefer to use cast metal as being cheaper, stronger, and more rigid, it will be apparent that the sections may be stamped up of malleable metal.

I claim- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a toy locomotive having a cylinder and sliding rods and provided with bearings for said rods, the driving-axle and clock-work or other moving parts on or supported by a continuous piece formed with and constituting part of the body, substantially as set forth.

2. A toy locomotive having the body and its adjuncts-that is, the pipes, cab, cylin- In testimony whereof I have signed my name ders, &c.-of two or more sections of cast or to this specification in the presence of two substamped metal, adapted to be fitted together to complete the article without soldering, as scribing witnesses.

set forth.

3. The combination, with the divided body, I Witnesses:

of the retaining end piece, B, ring f, and cap 9, substantially as set forth. I

JEROME B. SEGOR.

HUGH D. MCGEE, ALFRED B. BEERS. 

